From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.
2. pl. (Eccl.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Oriental \O'ri*en"tal\ ([=o]'r[i^]*[e^]n"tal), adjective [L. orientalis: cf. F. oriental.] Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to {occidental}; as, Oriental countries.
The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. --Sir T. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java; "Oriental politeness"; "for people of South and East Asian ancestry the term 'Asian' is preferred to 'Oriental'"; "Asian ancestry" [syn: {Asian}]
noun
1: a member of an Oriental race [syn: {oriental person}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "oriental": antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Oriental": American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Oriental, NC (town, FIPS 49380) Location: 35.03471 N, 76.68458 W Population (1990): 786 (487 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28571
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Oriental, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina Population (2000): 875 Housing Units (2000): 576 Land area (2000): 1.146828 sq. miles (2.970272 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.226096 sq. miles (0.585587 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.372924 sq. miles (3.555859 sq. km) FIPS code: 49380 Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37 Location: 35.031010 N, 76.687871 W ZIP Codes (1990): 28571 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Oriental, NC Oriental
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